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Sure, but even we stayed with w10 naming, we would still get an update with stricter requirements eventually



Eventually is the operative word there.

Windows 11 dropped 6 years after windows 10. And at the time it didn't support top of the line CPUs from 2 years ago.

Contrast that with Ubuntu which talked about dropping support for x86-v1 only 5 months ago[0].

[0]: https://ubuntu.com/blog/optimising-ubuntu-performance-on-amd...


I'm willing to buy a new computer every couple of years, but not to learn a new operating system.




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